@lastpositivist.bsky.social
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Aspiring philosopher; tolerable human; "amusing combination of sardonic detachment & literally all the feelings felt entirely unironically all at once" [he/his]
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lastpositivist.bsky.social
I really think at its heart philosophy is one giant battle, taking place over many eras and nations, between people who are basically pleasant bureaucrats and people who are sexy murder poets, and it’s both super important and super boring that the pleasant bureaucrats must win.
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surcomplicated.bsky.social
The culture wars tagged the wrong phenomenon as ‘socially contagious gender dysphoria’.

It’s not the very small % of ppl trying to change gender; it’s the large minority resorting to insane methods to try and look like a cartoonishly Insta-filtered thirst trap poast.
eleanor.lockhart.contact
Put yet another way, I don’t think all young men are trans women but it sure seems like they all have gender dysphoria
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pahuski.com
Happy Columbo’s Day
Screenshot from Columbo. He his talking to his dog, which is sitting is the drivers seat of a car. “Okay, I’m gonna put you in charge. You take care of the car. You’re a responsible dog. When I get back, if the car’s okay, I’ll give you another cookie.” “If the car’s gone,” “I’ll give you another cookie anyway” “because I love you.”
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starshine.bsky.social
Oh wait that wasn’t even an embellishment huh they’re really wylin out
Nicholas Kristof
@NickKristof
In Portland, an ambulance was summoned to the
ICE office to treat an injured protester (not clear
how he was injured). But when the patient was
loaded inside, ICE officers refused to let the
ambulance leave and threatened to shoot the
ambulance driver:
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mayamayi.bsky.social
Sometimes when i’m not sure if someone is flirting with me i’ll start posting worse and worse instagram stories to see if they keep replying
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eleanor.lockhart.contact
my best guess as to what’s going on with gender and society is that all the discourse around abortion + trans rights bubbled up and caused heterosexuals to start thinking about gender en masse, along with all the other stuff, and the untenability of it all just isn’t something normies can handle
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rdj1.bsky.social
Hey Trekkies 👉🏿 Happy birthday to Clint Howard, who made his Star Trek debut at age 7 in "The Corbomite Maneuver." Decades later, he appeared on Deep Space Nine, Enterprise, and then decades after that, Discovery and Strange New Worlds.
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beijingpalmer.bsky.social
Dune is a badly written novel but it’s very exciting if you read it at the right age for the ideas to captivate you enough that your brain can compensate for the prose.
rachelfeder.bsky.social
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
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louisevans.bsky.social
Concept: a starship named the USS Final_final_REALLYFINAL_thisone
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davidosland.bsky.social
On the centenary of Thatcher's birth, there have been predictable calls for a memorial to her memory. But Britain's 2300 food banks serve that purpose already.
lastpositivist.bsky.social
I just realised that I actually already answered this one in a previous story! (sherdenpact.neocities.org/ShortsLesson) I have to be the only one out there in the 40kfanfic game who would be in a position to say that my previous applications of verificationism to Khornite lore covers your paradox.
Zalmesh paused to give the class time to think, but after a few moments, with an inward sigh, he called upon the only hand raised. From the front of the class Lihzatu, as ever, spoke up:

"We know in advance that the verificatorious adequacy-criterion shall return the Null Rune, since the statement attributes an incapacity to Khorne and all such attributions involve a contradiction in terms. This follows from the defininatorial elaborations upon the appellation 'the most Mighty one', which provably entail that Khorne's Might surmounts all enemies, be they physical or metaphysical."

"Correct, as usual, student Lihzatu."
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slimemildred.bsky.social
The far right rose to prominence on the back of Pepe, but now the left has discovered the power of frog magic and given itself a fighting chance.
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glennyrodge.bsky.social
[in mary poppins court]
clerk:call the witness for the prosecution
*spoonful of sugar walks in*
medicine: oh, shit
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opinionhaver.bsky.social
One of the funnier bits of gameplay-story segregation is when they make do a fantasy racism plot line for the race that are character creation like: +5 TO SNEAK, LOCKPICK, AND PICKPOCKET
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beijingpalmer.bsky.social
I don't understand why U.S. reporters so regularly seem to let politicians get away with 'I haven't seen that' about stuff a) they obviously know and b) is directly relevant to their job. Did they sign some kind of agreement never to ask a follow-up question?
atrupar.com
REPORTER: We know the president moved forward with mass layoffs. We're also learning there were significant cuts to staff at special education services. Are you comfortable with those cuts?

MIKE JOHNSON: I haven't seen the specifics of that and I don't know
lastpositivist.bsky.social
I have seen people power-scaling the primarchs (boy coded), shipping the primarchs (girl coded), so does that mean people DnD class assigning the primarchs is NB coded?
lastpositivist.bsky.social
Yeah the nice thing about Columbus is he neatly sidesteps debates about historical relativism by just being bad relative to every time. Superbad, but in the analytic philosophy way not the cool way.
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olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket
tlecaque.bsky.social
Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.